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SHRED

(28,136 posts) Sat Mar 30, 2019, 09:56 PM Mar 2019

When low birth weight was a good thing

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When low birth weight was a good thing (Original Post) SHRED Mar 2019 OP

😲 never saw this before. Wow secondwind Mar 2019 #1

Low birth weight, premature birth, birth defects....... CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2019 #2

Unbelievable. Ohiogal Mar 2019 #3

Parody, people -- parody ! nt eppur_se_muova Mar 2019 #4

Pretty sure this is a fake ad, created for a contest. sl8 Mar 2019 #5

Good catch! SHRED Mar 2019 #6

While that may not be a real ad, PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2019 #7

Yep, This RobinA Mar 2019 #8

secondwind

(16,903 posts)

1. 😲 never saw this before. Wow

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2019, 09:58 PM

Mar 2019

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,683 posts)

2. Low birth weight, premature birth, birth defects.......

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2019, 10:02 PM

Mar 2019

My mom smoked when she was pregnant with me and also with my brother, 2 years later.

I was 4 weeks early, and small. Later on, a neurologist found that I'd had some brain damage around the time I was born. No idea what sort of damage, but I always took a long time learning to do anything physical.

I did recover, no thanks to my mom's smoking.

Fucking ad.

Ohiogal

(32,047 posts)

3. Unbelievable.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2019, 10:23 PM

Mar 2019

eppur_se_muova

(36,281 posts)

4. Parody, people -- parody ! nt

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2019, 10:39 PM

Mar 2019

sl8

(13,866 posts)

5. Pretty sure this is a fake ad, created for a contest.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2019, 11:06 PM

Mar 2019

More at https://www.designcrowd.com/community/contest.aspx?id=1671803

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

6. Good catch!

Reply to sl8 (Reply #5)

Sat Mar 30, 2019, 11:08 PM

Mar 2019

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,894 posts)

7. While that may not be a real ad,

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Sat Mar 30, 2019, 11:44 PM

Mar 2019

I believe it was noticed by the 1950s that mothers who smoked while pregnant tended to have smaller babies.

Also, doctors tried very hard to get women to restrict their weight gain during pregnancy to as little as 15 pounds, because they'd scare women with stories of having a big baby and that labor and delivery of a big baby was much worse than a small one.

RobinA

(9,894 posts)

8. Yep, This

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #7)

Sun Mar 31, 2019, 12:21 AM

Mar 2019

I was born in ‘58, my sister in ‘60. Mother’s always been proud of the fact that her doctor was strict about weight gain. 15 pounds. Apparently, he wouldn’t even have you as a patient if you didn’t agree to strict rules. I always wondered who this was supposed to benefit. While runaway weight gain probably isn’t the best, there’s got to be a happy medium.

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